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Ben,

I am very upset.  Apparently, your complaints were reported to Mr.
George Irvine through the offices of the "Enforcer".  As you are well
aware Mr. Irvine has a very low threshold for miscreancy of this ilk. He
is taking the harshest of disciplinary actions against the profane and
abusive public behavior of Mr. Cobb. As a result of your report I have
been sternly reprimanded as well. 

He has advised me to immediately draft a letter of apology to all the
members of this list as well as personally applogize to the membership
of the WKPP and beg them to forgive me for any past or future offenses I
may cause while pursuing a vicious campaign against reputed strokery.

BTW if I happen to meet you at O'Gillian's Technical Pub I will buy you
a round of widow makers.

Your severely punished colleague,

Bill Mee


Ben Greenhouse wrote:
> 
> Sure Bill, but there is a better, and less offensive way to let people know
they're
> wrong.  But ramming your personal opinion down their throats after they've
made it
> clear they don't agree and being so rude about it does ABSOLUTELY nothing.
> 
>>George Irvine wrote:
>>
>>  Ben, I will speak to Cobb and Bill Mee about this problem. Clearly it
>> is inaappropriate to have an opinion other that does not mesh with your
>> own view, and frankly, I am appalled that either one of these guys would
>> be so reckless. This is the whole problem with diving today: we have
>> experienced pros like Cobb and Mee butting into the fantasies and
>> delusions of people like yourself. I will never undersatnd it.  

>>   Good post , Ben, keep me informed of the behavior of thse two
>> hooligans, and I will do what I can on my end. Give my best to the
>> "enforcer", too. Geez, if there is anything I hate more than an opinion
>> that diverges from sheer stupidity, it is the same with the facts to
>> back it up. The nerve of these guys! Just when you thought it was safe
>> to be a complete stroke.        - G

> > James,
> >
> > You have no idea about what you are talking. Cobb is perhaps one of the
> > best bs filters we have out there against stupidity, personal
> > preferencism, doing it wrongism and all of the general idiocy which
> > afflicts socalled "technical diving".  He is a real voice of truth and
> > if you missed his recent and very appropriate post on the very real
> > problem of being lost offshore you are missing the best that this list
> > has to offer. Cobb calls it like it is.  Not only was his recent
> > vignette humorous and well written but it highlighted the most serious
> > risk in all open water diving.  That of being adrift and alone.  If you
> > have never experienced this I suggest you arrange for a trip up to
> > Whitefish Point.  Maybe they can arrange a special charter for you.
> >
> > You are apparently offended by hyperbole and baudy language.  Tell me
> > something. Does death offend you?  Are you attracted to roadkills and
> > other highway carnage? From your glib little comment here I am led to
> > believe that you find death to be a more "polite" alternative than
> > life.
> > There is nothing polite about death.  Your voluntary self censorship is
> > a mindless poorly reasoned exercise.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Bill Mee
> >
> >
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